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The Republic

Author
Plato
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
518 pages
ISBN
9781909438095
Published
15 October 2012
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • Plato
  • Republic
  • Socrates
  • democracy
  • philosophy
  • political
  • soul
  • forms
  • poetry
  • society

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Description

Socrates asks what justice is, and whether the just man is happier, in a long night of talk with Thrasymachus, Glaucon, and Adeimantus. A city in speech rises with classes, guardians, philosopher-rulers, the cave, and a tripartite soul shaped like the kallipolis. Dialogue as architecture: justice tested as city and soul in the same form.

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Plato (c. 427–347 BCE) wrote the dialogues in which Socrates thinks aloud — justice, love, the shape of a good city. Philosophy here is drama. Interactive Media keeps those conversations in circulation.

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